‘His muse was the abyss’: why Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked visions will haunt us for ever thumbnail
‘His muse was the abyss’: why Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked visions will haunt us for ever
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McCarthy visibly blushed on being asked whether the novel was in essence a love letter to his son. How curious to think that a novel so unsparingly horrific, so concise and total a vision of cataclysm, achieved such popularity as to bring its author into the good graces of Winfrey.
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Cormac McCarthy's novels, known for their blood-soaked and apocalyptic visions, will continue to haunt readers due to their concise and total portrayal of cataclysmic events. Despite the horror of his works, McCarthy's popularity has brought him into the good graces of Oprah Winfrey, and his novel "The Road" has been interpreted as a love letter to his son.

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  • McCarthy visibly blushed on being asked whether the novel was in essence a love letter to his son.
  • How curious to think that a novel so unsparingly horrific, so concise and total a vision of cataclysm, achieved such popularity as to bring its author into the good graces of Winfrey.

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